Worthy of 007, he did it in style...Sir Sean’s final homecoming
Star’s ashes scattered in Scotland as family fulfil last wish
SIR Sean Connery’s family brought him home to his beloved Scotland for the last time ahead of a poignant celebration of his life on what would have been his 92nd birthday.
The Hollywood legend’s widow Micheline Roquebrune, 93, is reported to have made the journey to privately scatter some of his ashes as it had been his ‘final wish’ to be returned to his homeland.
She had said after his death in the Bahamas in October 2020 at the age of 90: ‘We are going to bring Sean back to Scotland – that was his final wish. He wanted his ashes to be scattered in the Bahamas and also in his homeland.’
Earlier this year she said: ‘As soon as it’s possible to travel, we will come to Scotland as a family and bring Sean’s ashes.
‘I hope to scatter them on a golf course in Scotland as he always loved playing there.’
Sir Sean’s actor son Jason and granddaughter Saskia are understood to have made the trip to Scotland to bid a final farewell to the 007 actor.
Mr Connery, 59, had said in March they would probably choose St Andrews to scatter the ashes because his father had been a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club and had regularly played the famous Old Course.
He said: ‘I have memories of St Andrews always being sunny. It wasn’t, but we had special times there.’
The family’s pilgrimage to Scotland concluded with a celebration of Sir Sean’s life at the Dalmeny Estate near Edinburgh, his hometown and where he was later granted the freedom of the city in 1991. A
50strong entourage are reported to have arrived at Edinburgh Waverley station on board the Royal Scotsman train on Thursday to the sound of a trombonist playing King Of The Swingers.
A source told the Daily Record: ‘I couldn’t believe it when I saw Micheline and her party step off the train.
‘She was small and petite but very, very glamorous and she was dressed in a beige cream coloured outfit as if she were going to a wedding. Everyone had on some sort of tartan. We understand Sir Sean’s ashes were scattered at various different points of importance to him in his life.
‘It has all been building up to their final destination which was Edinburgh and Dalmeny yesterday.’
The group later held a birthday party in Sir Sean’s memory at the Tudor Gothic mansion at Dalmeny.
In a 2008 interview, Sir Sean said: ‘Scotland is my home and emotionally I’ve never left.’